Name
Henry Ewart Rawlings
About 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
16153
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
I. C. 23
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Address given as 15 George Street, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Additional Information
Of four brothers two were killed: Henry (who has the St Albans connection) and Alfred and John (Kentish Town) and William (also St Albans) survived. A newspaper report in the Herts Advertiser records that John and William were with Henry when he died ion the battlefield. It also records that their mother died of a severe seizure after hearing of the death of her sons.
Some newspapers reported his name as Henry Ewart Rawlings.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
